Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS) is published by the Korea Societyof Management Information Systems (KMIS), which is the largest professional institutein the field of information systems in Korea.

APJIS
welcomes proposals for Special Issues that are designed not only to draw
attention to new emerging topics in information systems (IS) but also to encourage
insightful and influential research on topics that fall within the scope of the
journal.

Potential
Guest Editors who would like to propose a Special Issue are invited to prepare
a proposal and then submit it to the Editor-in-Chief through apjis@kmis.or.kr. Then, the Senior Editorial
team will consider whether the proposal is of interest to the journal. When you
submit a proposal, it needs to include at least the following: the title of the
Special Issue, a brief CV of the proposed Guest Editors, a statement of the
Special Issues significance for IS area, and an outline time schedule.

Once
the proposal is approved, the Guest Editors are expected to actively encourage
submissions based on the Call for Papers. Being invited to submit a manuscript
does not mean that publication is guaranteed. The review process by which
Special Issue manuscripts are handled is nearly identical to that of regular
submissions to APJIS.

The
Guest Editors make decisions at all stages of the reviewing process, up to the
final acceptance decision, which is made by the Editor-in-Chief. The Guest
Editors are expected to adhere to all APJIS guidelines,
including the Statement of Editorial Policy, Code of Ethics, Instructions for
Contributors, Guidelines for Reviewers and Style Guide. Submissions, which the Guest
Editors find unsuited to the topic of the Special Issue, but still appropriate
for APJIS in general, are transferred to the regular process, if necessary.

Once
sufficient papers have been accepted for publication, the Guest Editors and the
Editor-in-Chief discuss and agree on the contents and order of the Special
Issue. In addition, the Guest Editors are asked to prepare an editorial
introduction and submit it with accepted papers to the Editor-in-Chief. The
maximum length of a Special Issue is one issue of the Journal. However, a
Special Issue may be smaller depending on the number of accepted manuscripts. Guest
Editors are responsible for ensuring successful completion of the Special
Issue.

If
you have any question, please contact the Editor-in-Chief through apjis@kmis.or.kr.

The Korea Society of
Management Information Systems (KMIS) has been publishing the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems
(APJIS)(ISSN: 2288-5404; e-ISSN:
2288-6818) since the year 1990 and has successfully made it a flagship
journal in the information systems field in Korea.

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In the past few years, business analytics has emerged as one of the most popular and important issues for both researchers and practitioners with an explosion of large-scale data such as social media data and real-time and historical data. Managers across all industries are looking for opportunities toincrease efficiencies and gain competitive advantage through the analysis of big data using a
variety of quantitative
techniques such as statistics, operations research methods, data mining, and social mining. We can clearly see that the possibilities of business analytics continue to evolve, driven by the recent advancement
in knowledge management and business intelligence. The question that arisesis how to best capture
the value by combining business analytics and knowledge management. Building on existing
work in knowledge management and business intelligence, it is essential to identify how businessanalytics can be used to address many of the issues currently facing knowledge management in both
academia and industrial sectors.

This special issue aims
to bring together scholars who investigate organizational performance and sustainable competitive advantage in the domains of knowledge management, business intelligence, business analytics, and big data. It aims to draw together empirically-grounded and theoretically-informed analyses of the key issues in contemporary forms of knowledge management and business analytics from across various fields and methodologies. Applied research in these areas is also welcome.

We invite submissions
that are theoretically and empirically rigorous on topics that may include butare
not limited to:

• Business value ofbusiness analytics

• Innovative knowledge
management with business analytics

• Data, text, and Web
mining for business analytics

• Knowledge management
strategies

• Knowledge management
in inter-organization contexts

• Knowledge management
processes and structure

• Collective and crowd
wisdom

• Business analytics
techniques and technologies

• Social analytics and
social mining

• Social network
analysis and modeling

• Opinion mining and
sentiment analysis

• Customer relationship
management and targeted marketing

• Analytics in public
sector administration

• Impact of
organizational and cultural challenges of Business analytics

• Creating new business
models, products, and services with business analytics

• Role of big data in
business value creation

IMPORTANT DATES:

- Deadline for article submission: 1
December 2014

- Reviews returned to authors: 1
February 2015

- Deadline for submission of revised
articles: 1 May 2015

- Final articles selected: 1 July
2015

- Publication of the APJIS Special Issue: September 2015

SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES:

The papers should be directly
submitted to the Guest Editors via email

As we already announced, you are asked to submit your research proposals to APJIS (apjis@kmis.or.kr). If your proposal is selected, you can collect data for your research for free, which is supported by Macromillembrain Co.(www.embrain.com).

The schedule of proposal selection process is as follows.

- Proposal submission: 4 to 8 August 2014

- Proposal selection: 11 to 15 August 2014

- Selection announcement: 18 August 2014

If you have any questions, please contact APJIS through apjis@kmis.or.kr. Hope to have your strong participation! Thank you.